SNMPI(1N) UNIX 5.0 (14 Sep 1989) SNMPI(1N)
NAME
snmpi - really minimal SNMP initiator
SYNOPSIS
snmpi [-a agent] [-c community] [-f file] [-p portno] [-d]
[-v] [-w]
DESCRIPTION
The snmpi program is an extremely simple program, used to
test snmpd. Once snmpd is started, to see if it's running,
do:
% snmpi dump
This should generate voluminous output.
OPTIONS
The `-a' switch sets the address of the SNMP agent. Either
a hostname, an IP-address, or a transport address (using
Kille's string syntax) may be used. The default is the
localhost. Similarly, the `-p' switch sets the UDP port
number that the agent resides on (if an IP-style address is
given, obviously). The default is UDP port 161.
The `-c' switch sets the community name for the SNMP
request. The default is public.
The `-d' switch enables debugging. This doesn't do anything
yet.
The `-f' switch selects a file containing compiled MIB
module definitions. The default is objects.defs.
The `-w' switch enables watching. When SNMP messages are
exchanged, they will be pretty-printed on the terminal if
the user is watching.
The `-v' switch enables verbose interaction. This doesn't
do anything yet.
FILES
objects.defs MIB definitions
NOTE WELL
The names of the objects in objects.defs are case sensitive.
This was necessary to improve the efficiency of the hashing
algorithm used for object lookup.
SEE ALSO
RFCs 1065, 1066, and 1098.
S.E. Kille, A string encoding of Presentation Address,
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SNMPI(1N) UNIX 5.0 (14 Sep 1989) SNMPI(1N)
Research Note RN/89/14, Department of Computer Science,
University College London, (February, 1989).
AUTHOR
Marshall T. Rose, NYSERNet Inc. This work was partially
supported by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency and the Rome Air Development Center of the U.S. Air
Force Systems Command under contract number F30602-88-C-
0016.
Although this package is distributed with the ISODE, it is
not an OSI program, per se. Inasmuch as the continued
survival of the Internet hinges on all nodes becoming
network manageable, this package was developed using the
ISODE and is being freely distributed with releases of
Berkeley UNIX.
It must be stressed that this package is not a complete
network management system. In particular, whilst snmpd
provides a minimal agent functionality, there are no Network
Operation Center (NOC) tools--snmpi is a debugging aid only.
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